On March 2, Michael J. D'Andrea, professor of counselor education at the University of Hawaii Manoa campus, received a letter informing him that "effective immediately upon your receipt of this letter, you are being reassigned to work at home with pay while the University of Hawaii ... addresses several issues concerning your alleged…

Discusses the division among scholars about how they should express their views on going to war against Iraq. (EV)

Discusses how the Independent Women's Forum (IWF) is sponsoring campus groups to challenge feminist ideas. Describes IWF-related publications and student groups at several colleges; the initiatives reach out to women looking for an alternative to "alarmist and overly-negative" feminism. (EV)

Describes how Scholars at Risk, a 3-year-old network, helps academics who face political persecution in their own countries to find safe homes elsewhere. (EV)

Charles E. Curran, whose license to teach Catholic theology has been revoked by the Vatican, is part of a broad-based revisionist movement that is challenging the Church's traditional, neoscholastic approach to the discipline. (MSE)

Describes how, as teaching assistants undertake organizing efforts on more campuses, small groups of TAs at some elite private colleges respond that unionizing is a bad idea. (EV)

Middle-class moderates had begun to adopt the confrontational tactics of student protesters when the ruling party in South Korea made dramatic concessions to opposition demands for direct presidential elections. It indicates that politics is beginning to bow to societal conditions. (MLW)

In the last two years, there has been an upswing in student activism, particularly due to complex political difficulties in Central America. Remarks by Abbie Hoffman at a conference of educators and students are discussed. (MLW)

The South African government has effectively prohibited all meaningful activities by 17 anti-apartheid organizations, including the South African National Students Congress, the largest and most vocal Black-student organization. Student demonstrations against the ban are reported. (MLW)

The Pope expressed strong support for Catholic higher education in America and urged greater attention to theological research, but repeated the Vatican's position that the theological work must be "tested and validated" by the Church. (MLW)

Gay and lesbian students are waging civil-rights campaigns on college campuses demanding that universities allow homosexual couples to live in on-campus housing for married students, create special offices staffed by gay people to deal with gay campus issues, and establish gay studies departments. (DB)

After suppression of protesters, Chinese officials demand that student leaders turn themselves in or face punishment. American colleges and scholarly organizations condemn massacre. Chinese students in the U.S. and abroad decry the slaughter and worry about going home. (MLW)

New criteria for university management of campus dissent, student and faculty discipline, and reporting of campus incidents, issued by the South African government as a condition for government subsidies, are presented. (MSE)